INTRODUCTION. 
With emblematick skill and mystick order. 
Thou shew’dst where tow’rs on battlements should rise. 
Where gates should open, or where walls should compass.” 
Prior. 
That hieroglyphics formed the earliest kind 
of written language cannot be disputed, since 
reason pronounces pictorial emblems the most 
natural mode by which a communication of 
ideas could be effected previous to the inven¬ 
tion of a more regular system. 
The monuments of the greatest antiquity 
confirm this opinion, and the most ancient 
rocks of Egypt make known the early con¬ 
quests of these people which are expressed 
